Education Quote by Charles Stanley

Stanley is doing something shrewd here: he concedes modern life without blessing it. The line about being "hurried by his vocation" nods to the respectable American excuse for inner chaos - work, calling, responsibility - then snaps the frame back to a harder diagnostic. The real speed limit isn’t on the calendar; it’s in the soul. You can be efficient, even admirable, and still be spiritually reckless.

The metaphor is deceptively plain: "run on his feet and walk in his spirit". It’s not an anti-ambition slogan, it’s a bid for divided mastery. Let the body meet the day’s demands, but refuse to let the interior self get dragged into the same frantic cadence. That inversion is the sermon’s hidden challenge, because it suggests that the truest measure of a life isn’t productivity but interior governance. Stanley’s Christianity isn’t mystical escapism; it’s a practical form of tempo control.

The subtext has a gentle rebuke baked in. If "the issue is how fast his spirit is going", then busyness becomes less an external condition and more a chosen posture. Meditation "upon the Lord" functions like a spiritual brake system - not instant relief, but trained response. The final sentence is the least comforting and most honest: slowing down "takes a period of time". He’s resisting the quick-fix religiosity of slogans and altar-call adrenaline. In the context of late-20th-century evangelical culture, this reads like pastoral pushback against both hustle culture and shallow piety, insisting that depth is measured in duration, not intensity.